Oh, my lord -- this journey! Long story short (so I can give you a long recipe below): 4th grader's class needed 15 gelatin squares made by parent volunteers for Engineering Day at school. They are putting them on shake tables and building structures out of marshmallows and toothpicks that can withstand earthquakes. Then stuff got crazy.
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Last year, I was on a run, zoning out, and listening to an episode from the Picturebooking podcast that dated back to 2015 when suddenly I heard something that made me stop running completely and snap to attention. THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ME.
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I want to live between the spaces of Julie Fogliano's "all around you have brown," in the poignancy of Jenny Offill's "'You're it, Sparky.'" I want to hang around with Jon Klassen's understatements and with Anne Ursu's delicate complexities.
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